… Promotes 508 staff The Governing Board of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has approved the appointment of Mrs. Olubusola Obasanjo-Akande and Engineer Christopher Amakulo as directors. The Board also approved the promotion of 22 assistant directors to deputy directors, 86 chiefs to assistant directors and 400 other staff to their next […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the disbursement of N320.3 billion as intervention funds for public tertiary institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Sonny Echono, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday during the Fund’s annual strategic planning workshop with all heads of beneficiary institutions. The TETFund boss, stated that […]
The Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu has inaugurated the State Population Census Management Committee to monitor the forthcoming census, slated to take place between, Thursday, the 3rd to Saturday, the 5th of May, 2023. The committee is saddled with the responsibility of sensitising the people of the state on the need and the […]
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the Lagos-Ibadan expressway will be completed by April 30 while the Abuja-Kano one will not be completed before the transition to the next administration. The minister stated this at the pre-inspection of the completed Loko-Oweto Bridge in Nasarawa State on Wednesday. Fashola appealed to […]
The remains of Gen. Donaldson Oladipo Diya, a former Chief of General Staff and Military Governor of Ogun State, will be buried on July 29. Olawale Adekoya, the Special Adviser on Media and Strategy to Diya, announced this on Wednesday in Lagos. Diya died on March 26 at the age of 78. Adekoya said that […]
Federal Government has received $800 million World Bank grant as part of its subsidy palliatives measures. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. According to the minister, the palliatives would be targeting 50 million vulnerable Nigerians […]
The Federal Operations Unit, Zone ’C’ of Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted five sacks of pangolin scales , hard drugs and other contraband worth two billion, seven hundred and fifty-seven million, six hundred and seventy-six thousand, three hundred and ninety naira only (N2,757,676,390.00). The Customs unit also recovered the sum of Sixty-One Million, Four Hundred […]
The Kebbi command of Nigeria Customs Service has generated a sum of one hundred and forty four million, eight hundred and sixty two thousand, and three hundred and seventy two naira (₦144,862,372) in March. The controller of the command, Dr. Ben Oramalugo fcia fnim said at the headquarters of the command in Birnin Kebbi on […]
The Western Marine Command of Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted contraband goods worth N110 million in the first quarter of the year. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Compt. OA Salefu told the press on Tuesday that the command recorded 15 incidences of seizures that had a cumulative Duty Paid Value of One Hundred […]
…Facilitates N4b export in 3 months The Customs Area Controller of the Seme Area command of Nigeria Customs Service, Compt. Dera Nnadi, mni has handed over the seized six million fake dollars to the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The controller handed over the fake dollars to the Zonal Coordinator, EFCC, […]
